scholarly journals Environmental Quality Assessment of Urban Ecology based on Spatial Heterogeneity and Remote Sensing Imagery

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iswari Nur Hidayati ◽  
R Suharyadi ◽  
Projo Danoedoro
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Spatial Heterogeneity ◽  
Urban Ecology ◽  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Ecological Index ◽  
Sensing Data

The phenomenon of urban ecology is very comprehensive, for example, rapid land-use changes, decrease in vegetation cover, dynamic urban climate, high population density, and lack of urban green space. Temporal resolution and spatial resolution of remote sensing data are fundamental requirements for spatial heterogeneity research. Remote sensing data is very effective and efficient for measuring, mapping, monitoring, and modeling spatial heterogeneity in urban areas. The advantage of remote sensing data is that it can be processed by visual and digital analysis, index transformation, image enhancement, and digital classification. Therefore, various information related to the quality of urban ecology can be processed quickly and accurately. This study integrates urban ecological, environmental data such as vegetation, built-up land, climate, and soil moisture based on spectral image response. The combination of various indices obtained from spatial data, thematic data, and spatial heterogeneity analysis can provide information related to urban ecological status. The results of this study can measure the pressure of environment caused by human activities such as urbanization, vegetation cover and agriculture land decreases, and urban micro-climate phenomenon. Using the same data source indicators, this method is comparable at different spatiotemporal scales and can avoid the variations or errors in weight definitions caused by individual characteristics. Land use changes can be seen from the results of the ecological index. Change is influenced by human behavior in the environment. In 2002, the ecological index illustrated that regions with low ecology still spread. Whereas in 2017, good and bad ecological indices are clustered.

scholarly journals Research on Land Use Changes in Panjin City Basing on Remote Sensing Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 153 ◽  
pp. 062050
Author(s):  
Hua Ding ◽  
Ru Ren Li ◽  
Li Shuang Sun ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Yu Mei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Sensing Data

scholarly journals Environmental and spatial risk factors for the larval habitats of Plasmodium knowlesi vectors in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Byrne ◽  
Wilfredo Aure ◽  
Benny O. Manin ◽  
Indra Vythilingam ◽  
Heather M. Ferguson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Plasmodium Knowlesi ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Larval Habitats ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Malaysian Borneo

AbstractLand-use changes, such as deforestation and agriculture, can influence mosquito vector populations and malaria transmission. These land-use changes have been linked to increased incidence in human cases of the zoonotic malaria Plasmodium knowlesi in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. This study investigates whether these associations are partially driven by fine-scale land-use changes creating more favourable aquatic breeding habitats for P. knowlesi anopheline vectors. Using aerial remote sensing data, we developed a sampling frame representative of all land use types within a major focus of P. knowlesi transmission. From 2015 to 2016 monthly longitudinal surveys of larval habitats were collected in randomly selected areas stratified by land use type. Additional remote sensing data on environmental variables, land cover and landscape configuration were assembled for the study site. Risk factor analyses were performed over multiple spatial scales to determine associations between environmental and spatial variables and anopheline larval presence. Habitat fragmentation (300 m), aspect (350 m), distance to rubber plantations (100 m) and Culex larval presence were identified as risk factors for Anopheles breeding. Additionally, models were fit to determine the presence of potential larval habitats within the areas surveyed and used to generate a time-series of monthly predictive maps. These results indicate that land-use change and topography influence the suitability of larval habitats, and may partially explain the link between P. knowlesi incidence and deforestation. The predictive maps, and identification of the spatial scales at which risk factors are most influential may aid spatio-temporally targeted vector control interventions.

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